Tag: quotes
H. L. Mencken
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…” Continue reading Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oprah Winfrey
“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” Continue reading Oprah Winfrey
Jackson Pollock
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.” Continue reading Jackson Pollock
Friedrich von Schiller
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.” Continue reading Friedrich von Schiller
Michael Patrick King
“I don’t wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.” Continue reading Michael Patrick King
Anna Freud
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” Continue reading Anna Freud
Nikolai Gogol
“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.” Continue reading Nikolai Gogol
Henry Ford
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Continue reading Henry Ford
Aimee Mullins
“Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.” Continue reading Aimee Mullins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Continue reading Franklin D. Roosevelt
Voltaire
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.” Continue reading Voltaire
Aristotle
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” Continue reading Aristotle
Frank Wilczek
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” Continue reading Frank Wilczek
Edward Chapin
“Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.” Continue reading Edward Chapin
Sir Robert Hutchinson
“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.” Continue reading Sir Robert Hutchinson
Lisa Williams
“I’m the world’s least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you’re not in love with.” Continue reading Lisa Williams
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
“It’s takin’ whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It’s all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin’.” Continue reading Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
John Lancaster Spalding
“Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life’s burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.” Continue reading John Lancaster Spalding
Barack Obama
“We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we’re doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.” Continue reading Barack Obama
Oliver Goldsmith
“Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.” Continue reading Oliver Goldsmith
Rosalynn Carter
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.” Continue reading Rosalynn Carter
Jawaharlal Nehru
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” Continue reading Jawaharlal Nehru
Abraham Lincoln
“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.” Continue reading Abraham Lincoln
Confucius
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Continue reading Confucius
Bernard M. Baruch
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.” Continue reading Bernard M. Baruch
Sheila Graham
“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.” Continue reading Sheila Graham
W. Somerset Maugham
“When things are at their worst I find something always happens.” Continue reading W. Somerset Maugham
Ward Jenkins
“Photographers do this for a living, every single day — they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It’s all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as … Continue reading Ward Jenkins
Benjamin Haydon
“Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.” Continue reading Benjamin Haydon
Henrik Ibsen
“The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.” Continue reading Henrik Ibsen
Georg W. Hegel
“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.” Continue reading Georg W. Hegel
Cato the Elder
“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.” Continue reading Cato the Elder
John Adams
“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.” Continue reading John Adams
Pablo Picasso
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape…” Continue reading Pablo Picasso
Sir William Osler
“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.” Continue reading Sir William Osler
Anonymous
There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love – there are conditions, and there is love. Continue reading Anonymous
Haiku #09
whatever you need to do tomorrow, do it now. The time is lost in moments and you will not recognise it. If the moment is gone, the work will remain undone forever. Continue reading Haiku #09
Scott Westerfeld
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” Continue reading Scott Westerfeld
